After going through this course, the students will understand: 1. What is meaning of antivirus? 2. Why antivirus is essential? 3. Whether antivirus software provides complete protection against malware? 4. Antivirus or Anti-malware, which do I need? 5. How antivirus works to detect viruses? 6. Many modern antivirus software solutions use cloud analysis. Comment. 7. How machine learning and artificial intelligence helps antivirus software? 8. What actions does antivirus commonly take when it detects malware on a computer system?

1. What are the benefits of antivirus? 2. Antivirus protects our data. Comment. 3. Antivirus programs often offer real-time scanning. What is the meaning of real time scanning? 4. What is meant by email scanning? 5. What is the purpose of firewall? 6. What activities are done by system performance optimization tools? 7. What is the meaning of zero-day exploits? 8. What is meant by Advanced Persistent Threats? 9. How antivirus provides us peace of mind? 10. Whether antivirus provides complete protection against viruses and other types of malware? Comment.

1. What is meant by antivirus? 2. What is the meaning of anti-malware? 3. Antivirus software should have some necessary features. What are those?

1. Antivirus software employs various techniques and technologies to detect viruses. Name few of them. 2. What do you know about signature based detection? 3. What is meant by behaviour monitoring? 4. What is sandbox analysis? 5. What is cloud analysis? 6. What is the benefit of machine learning and artificial intelligence for antivirus software?

1. What are some common action which are taken by antivirus software on detecting malware? 2. Antivirus may quarantine the infected file. What it means? 3. Whether all antivirus software offer the facility of repair of corrupted file? 4. When malware is detected, the antivirus generally provides an alert to the user. In which form, the alert is provided by antivirus software? 5. Whether antivirus always sends alert to the user on detecting the malware?

After going through this course, the students will understand: 1. What are the key factors or important points which we should consider before purchasing antivirus? 2. Antivirus software should be compatible with operating system of our computer? What does it mean? 3. Some antivirus software offer the feature of password manager. What is its benefit? 4. Why the antivirus will continue to face numerous challenges in future? 5. What are the various future challenges for antivirus software? 6. What are the legal considerations in antivirus software usage? 7. What are the ethical considerations related to antivirus software? 8. The user has ethical responsibility to disclose weakness in an antivirus software to the software vendor. 9. What is the benefit of this responsible disclosure? 10. What do you know about cloud-based antivirus? 11. What are the emerging trends in antivirus software?

1. What are those points which should be looked into while purchasing antivirus? 2. Our antivirus should provide real time protection. What is the meaning of real time protection? 3. Our antivirus should be compatible with the operating system of our computer. What it means? 4. What is the purpose of fire wall? 5. What is meant by password manager? 6. Some antivirus offer parental control features. What is the benefit of parental control feature?

1. Why the antivirus will continue to face numerous challenges in future? 2. What are the various future challenges for antivirus software? 3. What is the meaning of advanced persistent threats? 4. What is meant by cloud-based threats?

1. Give an example from the real world which demonstrates the important role played by antivirus in cybersecurity. 2. There is need for international collaboration in cybersecurity efforts. Give an example of the same from the real world.

1. What are various legal considerations in antivirus software usage? 2. We should have a legitimate licence to use the antivirus software. Why? 3. Antivirus software vendors must adhere to consumer protection laws. Comment.

1. What are various ethical considerations related to antivirus software? 2. Antivirus software vendor should provide clear information to the users regarding antivirus software. What this clear information refers to? 3. The user of antivirus software should follow responsible disclosure practices. What is meant by that? 4. The user of antivirus software should not engage in unethical or illegal activities. Comment.

1. What are emerging trends in Antivirus? 2. What is meant by Cloud-Based Antivirus? 3. What is the meaning of zero-day threats?